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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/29/sony-turning-to-intel-chips-and-android-to-revitalize-tv-sales/"><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sony-android.jpg"></a>Look out, <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/sony/">Sony</a> is actually trying something new and might announce Intel Atom-powered TVs next month at Google I/O 2010. A new Android released dubbed Dragonpoint is said to run on these TVs and will be just the beginning of Sony&#8217;s venture into the so-called Smart TV market. </p>
<p>The report comes from Bloomberg who sources two people familiar with the matter. The timing is certainly right. Sony hasn&#8217;t been in the top TV spot for years, constantly losing marketshare to others like <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/samsung/">Samsung</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/lg">LG</a>, and even <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/vizio/">Vizio</a>. Something needs to be done and so Sony is said to be testing a whole line of home entertainment devices that will bring the wonders of the Internet to TVs and Blu-ray players through Android. Logitech is even said to be in on the venture and will contribute a wireless keyboard that will work as a remote.</p>
<p>But as sweet as an Android TV sounds, it might not be the right solution &#8212; at least not for the North American market. This could either be a huge win or a fail whale.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcrobinw/" title="Posts by Robin Wauters">Robin Wauters</a> on Apr 29, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/simplegeo-joe-stump/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/stump.jpg" class="shot2" /></a>I had the chance to sit down with <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/joe-stump">Joe Stump</a>, former Lead Architect at <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/digg">Digg</a> who recently co-founded a startup called <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/simplegeo">SimpleGeo</a>, at <a href="http://thenextweb.com/conference">The Next Web</a> conference in Amsterdam. </p>
<p>We&#8217;ve covered the company he <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/16/digg-chief-architect-joe-stump-leaves-to-found-crash-corp/">started</a> with <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/matt-galligan">Matt Galligan</a> (of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/socialthing">Socialthing</a> fame) a <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/simplegeo/posts">number of times</a> in the past, but I was interested to learn how things were working out for the fledgling startup, which is looking to capitalize on the location craze (some call it <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/25/location-sxsw/">a war</a>, Stump calls it a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/19/location-gold-rush/">gold rush</a>) by <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/30/simplegeo-launch/">delivering</a> relevant <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/27/matt-galligan-and-joe-stump-are-building-an-infrastructure-for-location-based-services/">infrastructure services</a>. Think Amazon S3 for geodata.</p>
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<p>The Huffington Post is taking on more of the trappings of a social network. Borrowing from Foursquare, today it will start giving out badges to loyal readers who share a lot of HuffPost stories via Facebook and Twitter (the Networker), comment like crazy (the Superuser), or flag inappropriate comments (the Moderator).  The site also redesigned its user profile page to better highlight each user&#8217;s comment stream, and her friends, fans, or followers.</p>
<p>Last summer, the site launched its <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/your-huffpost-experience_b_260666.html">HuffPost Social News network</a>, allowing readers to log in with their Facebook IDs, and friend, fan, and follow each other on the site.  It later added Twitter, Google, and Yahoo as login options.  &#8220;We want to incorporate the best of social media,&#8221; Arianna Huffington tells me.  &#8220;It is important for the growth of the site so far, and even more important for the future growth.&#8221;</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcleena/" title="Posts by Leena Rao">Leena Rao</a> on Apr 29, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/linkedin-follows-facebook-and-twitter-into-follow-model/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/follow.png"></a><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a> has been working to make its professional social network, well, more social. With the massive popularity of Facebook, and Twitter, it makes sense for LinkedIn to use some of the feature from these networks in order to make its platform more social.  Last fall, Linked integrated with <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/09/social-networks-continue-to-rally-around-twitter-as-linkedin-goes-tweet-crazy-too/">Twitter,</a> allows users to Tweet from its platform and send Tweets from outside clients to LinkedIn with a hashtag. Today, LinkedIn is <a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/04/29/linkedin-company-follow/">launching </a>a small yet very familiar feature: the ability to &#8220;follow&#8221; a company&#8217;s profiles. </p>
<p>So now, any LinkedIn user can follow a company on the network, and will receive real-time alerts from the profile in their news and activity stream. It&#8217;s very similar in theory to the act of &#8220;following&#8221; someone on Twitter of becoming a fan of someone on Facebook. </p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcparislemon/" title="Posts by MG Siegler">MG Siegler</a> on Apr 29, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/textie/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-176526" title="te" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/te.jpg" alt="" /></a>Before <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/twitter-acquires-tweetie/">Twitter bought Atebits</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/loren-brichter">Loren Brichter</a> was busy. Not only was he hard at <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/tweetie-2-surprise/">work</a> on a follow up to Tweetie for Mac and a version for the iPad, but he had a secret side project that no one knew about. Until now. Meet <a href="http://textie.me">Textie</a>.</p>
<p>Textie is a dead-simple application with one purpose: free and beautiful texting for the iPhone and iPod touch. Given what a complete and utter <a href="http://social.venturebeat.com/2008/12/29/text-messaging-further-exposed-as-a-colossal-rip-off/">rip-off</a> traditional text messaging is, it&#8217;s a little surprising that there hasn&#8217;t been any backlash against the format. Instead, it&#8217;s exploding in usage. But as apps such as <a href="http://www.textplus.com/">TextPlus</a> have proven, there&#8217;s clearly a market for people who want to send messages without the fees. While TextPlus focuses mainly on group texting, Textie&#8217;s angle is to keep things clean and simple. The key ingredient is the interaction between the app and email.</p>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/29/kindle-update-adds-facebook-and-twitter-interaction-password-protection-and-better-pdf-control/"><Img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/kindle3.jpg"></a>Not to be outdone by <A HREF="http://crunchgear.com/tag/nook">Nook</A>, Amazon has released the <A HREF="http://crunchgear.com/tag/kindle">Kindle</A> 2.5 firmware. The new software adds a number of interesting features including the ability to share passages of books with your Facebook and Twitter friends providing that, unlike mine, yours are literate (don&#8217;t worry, they won&#8217;t be able to read this).</p>
<p>The firmware will launch later next month and includes the following features:</p>
<blockquote><p>The 2.5 software update for Kindle and Kindle DX is coming soon. We are rolling out the new software update to a limited group of Kindle users and plan a broad release in late May 2010. Check back here for updates on the release schedule.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a list of the coming enhancements:</p>
<p>Collections: Organize your books and documents into one or more collections. </p>
<p>PDF Pan and Zoom: Zoom into PDFs and pan around to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics.
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcrobinw/" title="Posts by Robin Wauters">Robin Wauters</a> on Apr 29, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/tim-ferriss-angel-investing/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/ferriss.jpg" class="shot2" /></a>One of the speakers here at <a href="http://thenextweb.com/conference">The Next Web conference</a> in Amsterdam this year was <a href="http://www.timferriss.com/">Timothy Ferriss</a>, who famously wrote the bestseller <a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/overview/">&#8220;The 4-Hour Workweek&#8221;</a>, a semi-autobiographical self-help book.</p>
<p>Unbeknownst to some, Ferriss is also quite an <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/tim-ferriss">active Silicon Valley angel investor</a> and startup advisor. Some of the companies he&#8217;s invested in and/or acts as an advisor for are <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/digg">Digg</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/stumbleupon">StumbleUpon</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/posterous">Posterous</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/simplegeo">SimpleGeo</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dailyburn">DailyBurn</a>.</p>
<p>Ferriss and I had a chat about his angel investment activities.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcroi/" title="Posts by Roi Carthy">Roi Carthy</a> on Apr 29, 2010							</div>
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If you are a regular TechCrunch reader, describing a product as a SaaS hybrid of Quicken + Zoho + SalesForce, would paint a fairly clear picture in your mind of the product. And this is pretty much what <a href="http://www.sohoos.com">Soho OS</a> is. Thing is, the odds that their target user bases, small and micro-business, are regular TechCrunch readers, are slim. </p>
<p>But let&#8217;s push the &#8216;how to succinctly describe the offering&#8217; issue aside, because Soho OS really does offer a well-rounded package of small business management services, from CRM, to invoicing, to VOIP. And it comes at an unbeatable price: it&#8217;s 100% free, with a commitment to remain so forever.</p>
<p>Soho OS is giving out 1000 access invites to TechCrunch readers. Get yours here: <a href="http://www.sohoos.com/welcome/techcrunch/">http://www.sohoos.com/welcome/techcrunch/</a></p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcjason/" title="Posts by Jason Kincaid">Jason Kincaid</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/jon-stewart-rips-into-apple-over-lost-iphone-debacle-thats-going-to-leave-a-mark/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/appholes.png" class="shot2"></a>Over the last two weeks countless blog posts and articles have been written about the Gizmodo/iPhone leak and the subsequent police investigation.  Few have been as scathing toward Apple as a segment that aired on tonight&#8217;s Daily Show.  And while Apple has long made a habit of mostly ignoring what the press and media says about it,  you can be sure this will get their attention.</p>
<p>In the segment, host Jon Stewart lambasts Apple for the police <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/26/the-iphone-leak-gets-ugly-police-raid-gizmodo-editors-house-confiscate-computers/">raid</a> on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen&#8217;s house, and the fact that Apple employees showed up on the doorstep of the guy who originally found the phone. Stewart&#8217;s report glosses over some important points in the case and gets a few details wrong.  But ultimately that doesn&#8217;t really matter — Stewart&#8217;s audience probably doesn&#8217;t care if there&#8217;s a chance a crime was committed here.  To them, a guy found a phone in the bar, photos of it were posted on the Internet, and Apple responded by siccing the authorities on them.  </p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcsarahh/" title="Posts by Sarah Hartenbaum">Sarah Hartenbaum</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/04/28/usertesting-com-a-quick-way-to-see-how-people-are-actually-using-your-site/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/usertestinglogo.png" class="shot2"></a>When it comes to designing a website, you can do all the tweaking you want, but you won’t know that your design actually <i>works</i> until people start using it. That’s where <a href="http://www.usertesting.com">UserTesting.com</a>, a startup that launched back in 2008, comes in. The service lets you quickly get usability feedback about your site by offering to pay people to complete certain tasks while recording their on-screen actions and voice. The site has recently added some key new features, and launched a new homepage to mark the occasion.</p>
<p>Previously, UserTesting only had a fixed set of standard questions that it would ask all testers after they had evaluated a website. Now, it allows you to specify exactly which questions you’d like to ask in your post-test questionnaire. In addition, the website owners can now ask the testers follow-up questions after the video and initial response questions are complete.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcmarrington/" title="Posts by Michael Arrington">Michael Arrington</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/yahoo-sends-nonsensical-email-to-disposable-email-users/"><img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/0836/10836v9-max-250x250.png' class="shot" alt="" /></a>A reader forwarded the email below from Yahoo announcing changes to their disposable email address. The only problem is that he couldn&#8217;t figure out what it&#8217;s trying to say. And after reading it a handful of times, I can&#8217;t figure it out either.</p>
<p>Yahoo&#8217;s disposable email product lets users give out, well, disposable email addresses. If spam starts to hit that address, you just turn it off. </p>
<p>We asked Yahoo if they know what it means &#8211; they say they&#8217;ll get back to us. Meanwhile, if anyone else got this, please let us know. And a free TechCrunch tshirt to anyone who can explain what it means.</p>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/tweetie-2-surprise/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-176485" title="pl" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pl.png" alt="" /></a>Earlier this month when <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/twitter-acquires-tweetie/">Twitter bought Atebits</a>, aka <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/loren-brichter">Loren Brichter</a>, the maker of the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/28/preview-tweetie-2-takes-the-best-iphone-twitter-app-and-ups-the-sex-appeal/">best</a> iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie, they promised that Tweetie wouldn&#8217;t die. Instead it was to be turned into Twitter for iPhone. That update now appears to be coming soon.</p>
<p>In the final update to Tweetie 2 (2.1.2) that just went live in the App Store, the &#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221; notes tell of a &#8220;Suprise!&#8221; The surprise is that when you pull down your tweet stream to refresh, you&#8217;re greeted with a new slot machine graphic. Hold it down long enough and the slot machine starts spinning. If it comes up with the right combo, you get a message that reads, &#8220;<em>Coming Soon! Tweetie will be Twitter for iPhone (Look for the next app update)</em>&#8220;</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcjason/" title="Posts by Jason Kincaid">Jason Kincaid</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/50000-websites-have-already-integrated-facebooks-new-social-plugins/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/zuckphoto.png" class="shot2"></a>There&#8217;s no question that Facebook&#8217;s new <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/plugins">social plugins</a> — which include a &#8216;Like&#8217; button for the web and an array of other widgets — have been adopted at a pretty amazing rate (we had our &#8216;Like&#8217; buttons live the day they were announced).  Facebook has just <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/379">given us</a> an idea of <i>how</i> quickly these widgets are being adopted: a week after <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/zuckerbergs-buildin-web-default-social/">f8</a>, 50,000 websites now feature the Like button and the other new plugins. </p>
<p>75 of those websites were Facebook&#8217;s launch partners, which included sites like CNN and the New York Times — everyone else handled the integration on their own, which Facebook has made very straightforward (it generally just involves copy-and-pasting a few lines of code).  This growth is important, because as more sites integrate these social widgets, Facebook will <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/facebook/">increasingly own</a> social interaction across the web.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcmarrington/" title="Posts by Michael Arrington">Michael Arrington</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/techcrunch-hacker-identified-you-decide-if-we-press-charges/"><img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/techcrunchhacked.jpg' class="shot2" alt="" /></a>Remember that <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/">hacking incident</a> we had back in January? TechCrunch.com <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8480306.stm">was defaced</a> twice <a href="http://thenextweb.com/2010/01/27/techcrunch-hacked-time-angry/">over a</a> two day period and was redirecting for part of that time to a third party site.</p>
<p>We got through the event and mostly put it behind us. But recently Garda (Ireland&#8217;s national police force) and the U.S. Secret Service have been in touch with us because they think they found our man. He&#8217;s a suspect in another case and evidence strongly suggesting he was the TechCrunch hacker as well came to their attention. He redirects hacked sites to a website he owns and generates affiliate revenue.</p>
<p>These law enforcement agencies now want to know if we want to press charges so that they can bring a criminal action against the suspect in the United States.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcjason/" title="Posts by Jason Kincaid">Jason Kincaid</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/academia-edu-raises-1-6-million-to-help-researchers-connect-with-each-other/"><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/academiaedulogo.png" alt="" /></a>When it comes to academic research, it&#8217;s easy to think that academics are always privy to what their peers are up to, and are up-to-date on the latest research papers in their field.  Unfortunately, that&#8217;s not usually the case.  <a href="http://www.academia.edu">Academia.edu</a> is a site that&#8217;s looking to help change that, by helping researchers connect to each other and find material that&#8217;s relevant to their field of study.  The site recently closed a $1.6 million Series A round led by Spark Ventures, with participation from angel investors including Mark Shuttleworth (Thawte founder, Ubuntu); Thomas Lehrman (Gerson Lehrman Group co-founder) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).</p>
<p>CEO Richard Price believes that the community of academics has largely been neglected as the web has evolved, and he&#8217;s looking to change that with Academia.edu.  The site, which <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/16/academiaedu-a-geni-for-researchers/">launched</a> in September 2008, serves as a sort of hybrid between LinkedIn, Facebook and Geni, all with a focus on research.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcparislemon/" title="Posts by MG Siegler">MG Siegler</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/ipad-android-iphone-numbers/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-176458" title="tcipad" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/tcipad.png" alt="" /></a>The iPad went on sale 25 days ago. It&#8217;s not yet on sale anywhere else in the world besides the U.S. The 3G version, which some are waiting for, still isn&#8217;t available. And yet, according to our logs, the iPad already accounts for more traffic to TechCrunch than Android does.</p>
<p>I love the iPad, but even I was surprised when I saw this. The stats are for the last 30 days &#8212; and again, the iPad hasn&#8217;t even been out that entire time. Here&#8217;s a percentage breakdown of which OS visitors to TechCrunch have been using in the past 30 days:</p>
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<p>How much did Apple pay for the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/apple-buys-virtual-personal-assistant-startup-siri/">acquisition of Siri</a>, the maker of a mobile virtual personal assistant app?  Apple won&#8217;t say, and neither will the company or its investors.  I spoke with two <a href="http://siri.com/">Siri</a> board members today, and neither would go near the subject.  &#8220;I can confirm the transaction has happened, but nothing about the transaction itself or Apple’s plans,&#8221; says Gary Morgenthaler of Morgenthaler Ventures.  &#8220;All I can say is we are pleased,&#8221; says SRI&#8217;s Norman Winarsky.  I even asked Siri&#8217;s app on my iPhone.  It directed me to a nearby Apple Store.</p>
<p>But if the buzz in Silicon Valley is correct, Siri&#8217;s investors have a lot to be pleased about.  I&#8217;ve been digging around. Sources I trust with indirect knowledge of the transaction peg it at between $150 million to $250 million, with the strongest rumor being &#8220;more than $200 million.&#8221;  Siri&#8217;s investors put a total of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/siri">$24 million</a> into the startup, so that would make the exit at least an eight-bagger.  </p>
<p>Why did Apple pay so much for an iPhone app company?  When you look at Siri as an iPhone app with only about a quarter million downloads of its free app, the price seems very expensive.  But what Apple really bought was an entry into mobile search.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcjohn/" title="Posts by John Biggs">John Biggs</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/28/lets-welcome-palm-to-the-land-of-the-walking-dead/"><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/UK_Palm-Pre_FrontClosed-Coral.jpg"></a>I&#8217;ve been <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/28/palm-pre-an-also-ran/">bearish on Palm</a> as a standalone platform since they launched last May and today the sadness-tinged chickens have come home to roost: Palm is now part of HP and, like the iPaq before it, the Pre and Pixi will slowly be subsumed into the company&#8217;s line-up.</p>
<p>In fact, I couldn&#8217;t be happier for Palm. A recent perusal of HP&#8217;s line-up including their new Envy line of laptops show that, unlike <A HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/10/dell-adamo-xps-dead-discontinued-canceled/">Dell</A>, they can produce a beautiful and powerful product at a nice price. Palm, in short, needed out of the hardware business and this gave them that chance.</p>
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								by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/tcmattburns/" title="Posts by Matt Burns">Matt Burns</a> on Apr 28, 2010							</div>
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							<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/28/the-top-5-hp-products-we-would-like-to-see-post-palm-buyout/"><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/webos-tablet.jpg"></a>HP didn&#8217;t <a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/04/28/hp-buys-palm-for-1-2-billion/">just drop $1.2 billion on Palm</a> to simply sit on the assets. There have to be major plans in the works to leverage webOS and slam out some killer consumer devices. This could be huge for not only both companies, but for you and me.</p>
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<p>In the earnings release, Baidu&#8217;s chairman and CEO Robin Li also stated that new internet advertising product Phoenix Nest&#8217;s performance &#8220;continued to exceed&#8221; expectations. Baidu likely saw a flux in revenue from the product as it just <a href="http://www.china-online-marketing.com/news/search-engine/baidu-phoenix-nest-replace-baidu-classic-on-december-2009/">replaced Baidu Bidding rank</a> in December.  Baidu was <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/baidus-results-to-reveal-china-market-share-gains-2010-04-28?reflink=MW_news_stmp">expected</a> to see gains thanks to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703465204575207833281993688.html?mod=wsj_india_main">stronger paid search revenue</a> as Google&#8217;s censorship issues with China escalated. Google <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/22/google-shuts-down-chinese-search-redirects-to-hong-kong/">shut down</a> its Chinese search engine in late March in response to the widely reported <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/google-china-attacks/">cyber attack on Google in December 2009</a>. </p>
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